The project should be turned into a world 'future zone', and it must be based on leading, not catching, technologies," he said, according to the Siberian Times newspaper.
"This is almost what you heard people talking about in 2000, but only now is the technology catching up with our ideas".
Partly, this was a case of the law catching up with technology, because the advent of videotaping allowed dance to be recorded more effectively than was previously possible.
Apple still has a tiny share of Japan's cellphone market, but its phones are catching on among technology buffs here, helping to popularize a generation of smartphones with downloadable applications.
Samsung has already published one story, Most wonderful place to be, showing how the storytelling will work: Obstacles to the technology catching on include: the need for the parent to have a Gear VR headset with them, and the child to have a Google Cardboard headset; and an ongoing debate about whether children should be encouraged to use VR headsets at all.
Malik noted that some airlines are catching onto the technology's value.
"They're way behind Nichia in production of LEDs, but they're catching up in technology," says Robert Steele, head of Strategies Unlimited.
The Internet of Things is moving — quickly — from big idea to real big deal, thanks to technology catching up to the vision.
Some fears are justified since, as a culture, we don't have a pristine history of social etiquette always catching up to technology (see: loud-mouth cellphone users).
